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News24.com | Planes carrying Russian, Ukrainian prisoners land in Moscow, Kiev
Planes carrying 70 Russian and Ukrainian prisoners involved in a landmark exchange landed in Moscow and Kiev, with the Ukrainian leader personally greeting former inmates. …read more Source::...
News24.com | Preparations for Russia-Ukraine prisoner exchange underway
A long-awaited exchange of prisoners between Moscow and Kiev has begun, Russian state television reports, broadcasting footage of buses leaving a jail in the capital. …read more Source::...
News24.com | Ukraine court releases MH17 ‘suspect’ pending trial: AFP
A court in Ukraine on Thursday released from pre-trial detention a man suspected of involvement in the downing of flight MH17, amid speculation he may be used in a prisoner swap with Russia. …read more Source::...
He makes sunglasses from coffee waste
Ukraine’s innovative Ochis eyewear brand is getting customers to literally smell the coffee – by making sunglasses out of coffee waste. …read more Source:: Independent...
French President Macron delivers breakthrough on Iran at tense G7 summit
France – French President Emmanuel Macron paved the way at a G7 summit for a diplomatic solution to the standoff between Washington and Tehran over a 2015 nuclear deal, but there was little else to show from a meeting at which allies were sharply divided. Macron, host of the summit of seven industrialized nations that ended on Monday in the...
Russian pilot says he’s no hero despite praise for crash-landing
MOSCOW – A Russian pilot who landed a passenger plane in a cornfield after hitting a flock of birds said he was no hero despite the Kremlin lauding him for saving the lives of 233 people. Russian media have said it was a miracle that no one was killed when the Ural Airlines Airbus 321 was forced to land on Thursday in a field on the...
Gibraltar releases Iran supertanker US wanted to seize
MADRID — Gibraltar on Thursday allowed a detained Iranian supertanker to leave the British overseas territory despite a last-minute U.S. attempt to seize the vessel, potentially defusing tensions between London and Tehran as a British-flagged tanker remains held by the Islamic Republic. The release of the Grace 1 comes amid a growing...
PICS: 23 injured as Russian passenger plane makes emergency landing near Moscow
Moscow – Russians hailed a miracle on Thursday after a passenger plane carrying 233 people made an emergency landing in a corn field on the outskirts of Moscow after striking a flock of birds shortly after take-off. The Ministry of Health said 23 people had suffered injuries, but that nobody had been killed when the Ural Airlines Airbus 321...
LOOK: Thousands defy authorities in Moscow’s biggest protest for years
Moscow – Tens of thousands of Russians staged what a monitoring group called the country’s biggest political protest for eight years on Saturday, defying a crackdown to demand free elections to Moscow’s city legislature. Police rounded up scores of people after the demonstration in Moscow and at another rally in St Petersburg,...
Facebook dismantles covert influence campaign tied to Saudis
London – People connected to the government of Saudi Arabia have run a network of fake accounts and pages on Facebook to promote state propaganda and attack regional rivals, the social media giant said on Thursday. Facebook said it had suspended more than 350 accounts and pages with about 1.4 million followers, the latest takedown in an...
